City finally got their first win since late April with an impressive second half recovery at Stoke City on Friday night
Legendary former Hull City manager Brian Horton has backed the Tigers to build on their first win of the season at Stoke City on Friday night when they host Cardiff City at the MKM Stadium this weekend.
City had endured a poor start to the season under new boss Tim Walter but finally got that elusive opening success after coming from behind to see off the Potters 3-1, having been a goal down at the break in Staffordshire.
The managerless Bluebirds are up next for City and will arrive in East Yorkshire without a win in the Championship this season and without a manager.
Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Leeds United was their fifth in six games with their only point – and goal – coming in the derby at Swansea City, a result which brought the end of Erol Bulut’s tenure in South Wales, just three months after signing a new contract.
Horton, who will be at the MKM Stadium on Saturday as City celebrate their 120th anniversary, hopes Tim Walter’s men can finally kick on and get their season up and running, and add to the Bluebirds’ woes.
“Well, it’s a tough league and they’ve had a tough start with the new manager, hasn’t he?,” Horton told Hull Live. “That was his first victory at the Stoke on Friday night.
“As a manager, it’s always important to get off to a good start when you go into a good club. I was lucky that I went into Hull as player-manager, we had a very, very good start If you don’t, then all of a sudden people are thinking you know, this new manager, where’s he come from, Germany, what’s he done?
“It’s difficult, but you know that first one is important and now Cardiff at home, they’ll be looking to get three points, but then they if they appoint somebody, then that puts another value on it, doesn’t it, because players want to play for the new manager and what have you.
“Let’s just hope that’s in the past, now. To go on and get three points against Cardiff and get the ball really rolling. It should be (confidence) after a win away from home, it should be in front of the home fans. I’m coming up, so I’m looking forward to the game.”
Bulut’s departure was the third Championship departure of the season so far, joining Ryan Lowe and Steven Schumacher, with Horton describing the perilous nature of being a boss in 2024 as crazy.
“I mean, it’s just crazy, now,” he continued. “Five or six games and the sackings of managers. It’s very unfortunate. I mean, Don Robinson was fantastic to me, and then eventually made me director.
“I think I was the first one ever, and I don’t think there’s ever been one since – I was player and managing director with Don Robinson, but he was great to work with. He never interfered in football. He said, ‘You’re the expert’ but when it came to money and wages, of course, he did get involved, but he was a great chairman to work for.”
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